iOCO has repurchased a further 2.18 million of its own shares, continuing a buyback programme launched last year.

There are life and death decisions that government must make about South Africa’s vehicle industry.

Straddling the celestial equator, the constellation is visible in both hemispheres

Orion, the hunter, one of the most recognisable constellations in the night sky, is well placed for observation from the northern hemisphere during February. Straddling the celestial equator – the projection of Earth’s equator on to the night sky – the constellation is also visible from the southern...

SpaceX has quietly revised its Starlink privacy policy to allow the use of customer data for AI training.

Every second, 11m bits of information enter our brains, which then efficiently prioritise them. We need to learn to work with the process, rather than against it

It’s believed that we have about 50,000 thoughts a day: big, small, urgent, banal – “Did I leave the oven on?”. And those are just the ones that register. Subconsciously, we’re constantly sifting through a barrage of...

We are living longer and longer, but many of us are unprepared for the challenges age brings, says the novelist and psychotherapist Frank Tallis

We have never lived so long, so well, nor had more available advice on how to do so: don’t smoke, don’t drink, don’t eat ultraprocessed foods; lift weights, get outside, learn a language. Cosmetics – or surgery – have never been so available,...

Recreating cosmic dust may help answer questions about how meteorites hitting Earth came to contain the organic matter that they do

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How does one acquire star dust? One option, as the Perry Como song suggests, is to catch a falling star and put it in your pocket, so to speak: thousands of tonnes of cosmic dust bombard the Earth each...

Nick Carter says easing controls on MDMA will allow drug to be used as alternative treatment for those with PTSD

A former head of the British military is calling for the government to ease restrictions on the party drug MDMA so that it can be tested more cheaply as a treatment for veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

Sir Nick Carter, who was chief of the defence staff until...

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Researchers tell ‘human story’ about crisis during plague of Justinian, which killed millions in Byzantine empire

A US-led research team has verified the first Mediterranean mass grave of the world’s earliest recorded pandemic, providing stark new details about the plague of Justinian that killed millions of people in the Byzantine empire between the sixth and eighth centuries.

The findings,...

Ethereum traders are becoming more active on-chain, not by rotating out of risk but by leaning into it. Over recent sessions, leveraged positioning has increased across decentralized perpetual markets, pointing to a growing willingness to deploy capital directly through smart contract–based venues. This shift is unfolding alongside improving liquidity conditions, with HFDX seeing its liquidity […]

For traders stepping into on-chain perpetual futures for the first time, the learning curve can feel steep. While access to decentralized derivatives has improved significantly, understanding how trades behave once they are live remains the biggest challenge for beginners. Price movement, fees, and leverage tend to feel very different on-chain compared to spot markets or […]

Hong Kong (PinionNewswire) — Standard Chartered and the Hong Kong Trade Development Council (HKTDC) jointly released the latest Standard Chartered Greater Bay Area Business Confidence Index (GBAI), which revealed the business sentiment for most companies in the Greater Bay Area (GBA) remained steady amid persistent external uncertainties in Q4-2025. Following a rebound in the previous […]

Hong Kong  — The 19th Asian Financial Forum (AFF), jointly organised by the Hong Kong SAR (HKSAR) Government and Hong Kong Trade Development Council (HKTDC), concluded successfully . The forum attracted an enthusiastic response, drawing over 4,000 leaders from governments and business sectors across over 60 countries and regions. Over the two-day forum (January 26-27),, […]

New York, USA (PinionNewswire) — Dream Companion, an emerging platform in AI-powered digital companionship, today announced the launch of its advanced NSFW AI Chat, designed to deliver deeply contextual, personalized conversations through long-term memory systems and adaptive AI models. The platform sets a new benchmark for nsfw ai chats by combining realism, continuity, and user-controlled […]

New York, USA (PinionNewswire) — The NIX Foundation recently announced the successful completion of its full acquisition of the ORACLE Foundation, marking a critical phase in the integration of global decentralized computing infrastructure and fully supporting CaryPact to become the core standard for the next-generation decentralized computing network. This strategic maneuver not only...

Weather service research finds less accurate probability-based predictions are still considered helpful

The Met Office is to lean into one of Britain’s favourite pastimes – talking about the weather – by launching a new two-week forecast.

At present, the publicly funded weather and climate service offers a seven-day forecast on its website and app with an hourly breakdown for the first five...

Champion of respiratory medicine who was passionate about building bridges between academics and clinicians

Mike Morgan, who has died aged 75, was a leading figure in respiratory services in Leicester for more than 30 years. He also championed respiratory medicine at the highest level. It had long been a poor relation compared to other areas of medicine but, as the national clinical director...